In Some Deep Wood.
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Satisfied all my ambitions,
Silenced all my premonitions,
Every restless want fulfilled
Every protestation stilled.
Queries answered, doubts beguiled,
Comforted as is a child,
When, terrified by storm's alarms,
It finds at last its mother's arms,
And plunging in love's plumbless sea,
Retastes its first nativity.
Oh! if I only could,
Lie self -effaced, in some deep wood!
Silenced all my premonitions,
Every restless want fulfilled
Every protestation stilled.
Queries answered, doubts beguiled,
Comforted as is a child,
When, terrified by storm's alarms,
It finds at last its mother's arms,
And plunging in love's plumbless sea,
Retastes its first nativity.
Oh! if I only could,
Lie self -effaced, in some deep wood!
Deduction.
Systems and theories fade,
Others are slowly made,
Life springs, and is destroyed,
Riot reigns in the void,
Yet under, without flaw,
Lieth the Law.
Others are slowly made,
Life springs, and is destroyed,
Riot reigns in the void,
Yet under, without flaw,
Lieth the Law.
